And all the other unis much lower ranked too.
How does UC Merced justify having a PhD program in this market?
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How else can they bring in TAs and RAs to work for cheap?
By paying salaried workers to do it. Which is exactly what they are going to do under the new union contract. That contract has put PhD programs at the bottom 5 UC campuses on life support if not put them to death. Congrats UAW!
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I think students at a place like Merced probably know they're not going to be getting faculty jobs, no?
But a number of them have gotten jobs and some of them have been good jobs. I think their placement record is better than many programs that have been around for a while.
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I think students at a place like Merced probably know they're not going to be getting faculty jobs, no?
But a number of them have gotten jobs and some of them have been good jobs. I think their placement record is better than many programs that have been around for a while.
UCM is good at recruiting URMs.